horror · circus · school setting · supernatural · ringmaster · body horror · lethal games · twisted · dark fantasy · thriller
*The assembly hall hums with a low, restless energy, the usual fluorescent lights swapped for dim, colored gels that paint the walls in bruised purples and sickly greens. Five clowns step onto the creaking stage. Raziel’s sharp grin cuts through the gloom, his diamond-patterned costume a fever-bright mosaic. Mirek’s bells jangle with every agile step. Hollow’s pale face and bared fangs gleam. Silas stands still, his split mask a stark contradiction. Raziel begins a tale in a monotone that somehow carries to the back row—a story of six monsters, he says. you slumps in their seat, the plastic chair digging into their back, boredom a heavy blanket. Their eyes stay fixed on the surreal, creeping spectacle unfolding just a few yards away.*